Resource created as part of a project to digitize, disseminate, and discover African cultural materials. Index, search engine and preservation tool for more than 500,000 openly available books, magazines and other primary sources. Includes access to four modules: History and Culture ; Black South African Magazines ; Southern African Films and Documentaries ; East African Magazines, Newspapers, and Films: The Hilary Ng’weno Archive.
Includes letters, diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activists’ biographies and first-hand accounts.
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy Collection contains open access resources that provide policy overviews, implementation plans, guiding frameworks, and resources for implementing artificial intelligence and machine learning in a wide range of environments. This collection includes documents published by Federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, international, state, and local governments.
The goal of the collection is to identify, collect, organize, and maintain digital resources relevant to artificial intelligence and machine learning and its intersection with public policy and practice.
Primary source collection detailing the extensive work of African Americans to abolish slavery in the United States prior to the Civil War. Covering the period 1830-1865, the resource includes articles, documents, correspondence, proceedings, manuscripts, and literary works, showing the full range of activities in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany.
Digital archive of news media covering the African American experience from the early 18th century to the present day. Includes access to series 1 and 2.
First time users may create an individual account to access additional features.
The Daily Observer or Liberian Observer is an independent national newspaper founded in 1981 by Kenneth Y. Best, a renowned Liberian journalist, and his wife, Mae Gene Traub Best. For more than 40 years, the Daily Observer has chronicled all facets of life, culture, and political development in the key West African state of Liberia.
The archive features full page-level digitization, complete original graphics, and searchable text, and is cross-searchable with other Global Press Archive collections.
Username and password required for access. Visit the Scholars' Commons Reference Desk at Wells Library for login information. Please note: access is permitted for IU faculty, staff, and students only. Authorized users may utilize the information obtained from this resource for academic, non-commercial purposes only, and only during the time of official affiliation with IU. Searchable online database of North American news publishers. Includes company records that appear in the printed E&P Databook.
Includes access to collections 1-10, and 15. Religious works dominate, but the resource also includes secular material. Fully searchable pages scanned directly from the original printed sources in high-resolution full color. Each item is captured in its entirety, complete with binding, edges, endpapers, blank pages and any loose inserts.
From sixteenth century origins as a trading venture to the East Indies, through to its rise a powerful company and de facto ruler of India, to its demise amid allegations of greed and corruption, the East India Company was an extraordinary force in global history for three centuries.
Key topics covered by the newspaper include industrialization of Puerto Rican society, the Great Depression, territorial relations with the United States including citizenship and activities of independence movements such as the Macheteros and FALN, the rise of the Popular Democratic Party, the Ponce massacre, the Ley de la Mordaza (Gag Law) and more.
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Access to rubbings made from stone inscriptions compiled from the work of the late historian Mao Yuanming. Also includes additional material from archeological reports up to 2015. The database is full-text searchable, but certain features (such as copying text and citation) require a username and password for access. Visit the Scholar's Commons Reference Desk at Wells Library for login information.
Access to footage, interviews, photographs and movie posters related to Hindi cinema, the industry producing Hindi/Urdu language films in Mumbai, India (formerly known as Bombay), and now popularly known as ‘Bollywood’.
Includes full interview rushes and actuality footage with leading personalities from the Hindi film industry, originally produced by Hyphen Films Ltd between 1986 and 2011 for inclusion in various Channel 4 UK television series. Also includes selected interviews from the documentary Bollywood Dancing produced for BBC 2 in 2001. The film footage are supplemented by photographs by Peter Chappell and movie posters from the collection at the British Film Institute.
Access to documents related to the investigation and prosecution of war crimes committed by Nazi concentration camp commandants and camp personnel.
Documents include: correspondence; trial records and transcripts; investigatory material, such as interrogation reports and trial exhibits; clemency petitions and reviews; photographs of atrocities; newspaper clippings; and pamphlets. Many concentration (and later extermination) camps and sub-camps are represented in this collection, including Mauthausen, Dachau, Belsen-Bergen, Buchenwald, Treblinka, Sobibor, sub-camp Gros-Raming, sub-camp Gusen I, sub-camp Ebensee, and others.
Online full text access to Indiana newspapers, including the Indianapolis Star (1903–Present), Evansville Courier & Press, Indianapolis News, Journal and Courier (Lafayette), Palladium-Item (Richmond), and The Star Press (Muncie).
The Indianapolis Star is currently the only major daily newspaper in Indianapolis. Additional access options:
Access to the Indianapolis Star 1903-2004 (via ProQuest Historical Newspapers).
The IUB Library holds the physical microfilm for the Indianapolis Star, 1907-present, located on the second floor of the East Tower, call number AN2 .I3S7.
Digital access to the papers of President Franklin D. Roosevelt related to Japanese American internment, an executive order that targeted U.S. citizens and resident aliens and uprooted entire communities.
In an atmosphere of hysteria following U.S. entry into the Second World War, and with the support of officials at all levels of the federal government, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the internment of tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens from Japan. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, dated February 19, 1942, gave the U.S. military broad powers to ban any citizen from a wide coastal area stretching from the state of Washington to California and extending inland into southern Arizona.
The Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. The print version has been published between 1904 and 1940 by Brill, and a paperback reprint version was published in January 2022. This online version is full text searchable.
The 1990s and early 2000s were a tumultuous time in Ukraine’s history. The fall of the Soviet Union and the establishment of independent Ukraine radically altered its political system. Citizens were guaranteed free speech and property rights; however, they suffered under a prolonged economic depression. In 2000, corruption scandals and the murder of investigative journalist Georgiy Gongadze triggered nationwide protests against Ukraine’s political elites. The Local and Independent Ukrainian Newspapers (LIUN) collection traces the history of Ukraine during this early period of independence, and the events leading up to the Orange Revolution (2004–2005).
The Local and Independent Ukrainian Newspapers (LIUN) collection is comprised of over 250,000 pages and 900 titles. LIUN includes local newspapers from over 340 cities and towns—including publications from each of Ukraine’s 27 regions.
Titles in the collection include:
Afganets (Афганец), Odesa
Agrarnik (Аграрник), Balakliia
Aktsent (Акцент), Donetsk
Al’ baian (Аль баян), Kyiv
Arkasivs’ka vulytsia (Аркасівська вулиця), Mykolaev
Avangard (Авангард), Luhans’k
Avdet (Авдет), Bakhchysarai
Boevoe bratstvo (Боевое братство), Bakhmut
Brat’ia slaviane (Братья славяне), Severodonetsk
Chornobyl’s’ki visti (Чорнобильські вісті), Kharkiv
Dovir’ia (Довiр’я), Poltava
Golos naroda (Голос народа), Krasnyi Luch
Homin Karpat (Гомiн Карпат), Verkhovyna
Khrystyians’kyi demokrat (Християнський демократ), Uzhhorod
Kommunist Zaporozh’ia (Коммунист Запорожья), Zaporіzhzhia
Liberal’na hazeta (Ліберальна газета), Kyiv
Liubystok (Любисток), Zhytomyr
Nova Volyn’ (Нова Волинь), Rivne
Partriot Priazov’ia (Партриот Приазовья), Berdians’k
Sekretnye yssledovanyia (Секретные исследования), Dnipro
Nash Sovremennik (Наш современник, Our Contemporary) was an influential literary periodical of the Soviet and post-Soviet period. Established in 1956 in Moscow on the basis of the Maxim Gorky-founded literary journal Al’manakh (Альманах, Almanac; pub. 1933-1955, suspended 1940-1947), it was published under the auspices of the RSFSR Union of Writers and was one of the most popular and respected Soviet literary periodicals.
Unlike many of its contemporary counterparts that tended to attract writers and young talent from a more urban intellectual setting, Nash Sovremennik focused on writers from the Russian glubinka and remote provinces. As a result, the journal came to be associated with the so-called “village” or “provincial prose,” with some of its most important representatives being such writers as Fyodor Abramov, Viktor Astafyev, Vasily Belov, and Vasily Shukshin, among others.
Full-image full-text searchable database of the four art journals published by the National Palace Museum (NPM) in Taipei. Covers nearly 700,000 artworks that cover the 5,000-year long history of China. Includes traditional Chinese and English content with English, simplified Chinese, and traditional Chinese interfaces.
Includes the following four titles:
Access to two digital collections related to Holocaust Era Assets. The first includes records Regarding Bank Investigations and Records Relating to Interrogations of Nazi Financiers, from the records of the Office of the Finance Division and Finance Advisor in the Office of Military Government, U.S. Zone (Germany) (OMGUS), during the period 1945-1949. The second comprises Records Regarding Intelligence and Financial Investigations, 1945-1949, from the Records of the Financial Intelligence Group, Office of the Finance Adviser. These collections consist of memorandums, letters, cables, balance sheets, reports, exhibits, newspaper clippings, and civil censorship intercepts.
This collection reproduces the Tagebuch or journal of Dr. Hans Frank (1900-1946), the Governor-General of German-occupied Poland from October 1939 until early 1945. The journal is in typed format, in chronological order, covering all aspect of Generalgouvernment (GG) administration from its seat in the royal Wawel castle in Krakau (Kraków). The entries reflect administrative matters, rather than the spontaneous thoughts or feelings usually found in a diary.
Digital collection consisting of index cards listing the name, date and place of birth, occupation and last address of Jews whose German citizenship was revoked in accordance with the "Nuremberg Laws" of 1935, including Jews from Germany, Austria and Czech Bohemia. The cards are generally in alphabetical order. Suffix names "Israel" for men and "Sara" for women were added by law in 1936 to readily identify persons of Jewish descent.
Pre-revolutionary political, literary and cultural illustrated magazine established in 1899 and in continuous print until 1918. Ogonek started as a weekly illustrated supplement to the influential St. Petersburg-based newspaper Birzhevye Vedomosti. It later became a separate entity, attracting the period’s most notable journalists, photographers, literati and critics. It was closed by the Bolshevik revolutionaries in 1918 for propagating anti-Soviet views.
Scholarly reference resource published in partnership with the American Institute of Physics. Includes peer-reviewed summaries on a variety of topics across the subject of physics.
Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law (OSAIL) contains over 180 full-text online editions of market-leading reference works and treatises published by Oxford University Press, including Oppenheim, and the Oxford Commentaries on International Law. All titles are fully searchable and browsable by subject matter, title and author, and are linked, via the Oxford Law Citator, to relevant case reports and articles within all of Oxford University Press's online law products.
Together with Judge Bruno Simma, books in the following four categories have been selected for inclusion:
The Libraries' subscription includes access to the Discovery Assistant AI research tool. This tool is in beta, and may be removed from the Oxford Academic site without advance notice.
The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) was established by act of Congress in 1980. Between July and December 1981, the CWRIC held 20 days of public hearings. This publication consists of the testimony and documents from more than 750 witnesses: Japanese Americans and Aleuts who had lived through the events of WWII, former government officials who ran the internment program, public figures, internees, organizations such as the Japanese American Citizens League, interested citizens, historians, and other professionals who had studied the subjects of the Commission’s inquiry. Many of the transcripts are personal stories of experiences of evacuees. Documents include publications, reports, press releases, photographs, newspaper clippings, etc. related to the hearings.
Prominent journal on Russian domestic and foreign policy issues. POLIS. Politicheskie issledovania (ПОЛИС. Политические исследования, POLICY. Political Studies) publishes academic research and essays on Russian domestic and foreign policy issues from a variety of academic perspectives and disciplines.
Formerly published under the title Rabochii klass i sovremennyi mir (Рабочий класс и современный мир, The Working class and the Contemporary World) from 1971-1990 at the Institute of the International Labor Movement of the Academy of Sciences.
Illustrates the chief genres of Russian popular literature, including chivalric tales, historical fiction and updated fairy tales, as well as stories of adventure, banditry, detectives, success, war and empire, women and gender. The collection follows the evolution of the Russian language in its popular commercial print form.
The Post-Perestroika Newspapers collection traces the evolution of post-Soviet Russia, with coverage beginning in the mid-1980s and extending well into the twenty-first century.
Titles in the Post-Perestroika Newspapers collection include:
Chas pik (Час пик)
Delovoi Mir (Деловой мир)
Kuranty (Куранты)
The Moscow Times
Nevskoe vremia (Невское время)
Novye Izvestiia (Новые Известия)
Obshchaia gazeta (Общая газета)
Pravda – piat’, 5 (Правда -пять, 5)
Pravda (Правда)
Rossia (Россия)
Rossiiskie vesti (Российские вести)
Segodnia (Сегодня)
Slovo (Слово)
Sobesednik (Собеседник)
Sovershenno sekretno (Совершенно секретно)
Zhizn’ (Жизнь)
SAFEHAVEN was the code name of a project of the Foreign Economic Administration, in cooperation with the State Department and the military services, to block the flow of German capital across neutral boundaries and to identify and observe all German overseas investments during the World War II era. This collections includes SAFEHAVEM project documents digitized from the US National Archives.
To coordinate research and intelligence sharing regarding SAFEHAVEN-related topics, the War Crimes Branch received SAFEHAVEN reports from various agencies of the U.S. government in addition to SAFEHAVEN-related military attach reports regarding the clandestine transfer of German assets outside Germany that could be used to rebuild the German war machine or the Nazi party after the war, as well as art looting and other acts that elicited the interest of Allied intelligence agencies during the war. Another aspect of the SAFEHAVEN project was the restoration of looted art treasures to their rightful owners.
Access to northern California’s “newspaper of record,” also known as the "Voice of the West." Includes reporting and commentary on news ranging from the aftermath of the Gold Rush to the effects of World War II, and the Great Depression. In the 20th century, the paper became known for colorful columnists like Herb Caen and the original “Dear Abby,” as well as its coverage of the counterculture movement, gay rights and the onset of the AIDS crisis.
Full text repository of quality South Asian books, magazines, reports, historical journals, video, audio, zines, newspapers, magazines, letters, diaries, and other primary source materials.
Since the mid-nineteenth century, the South Bend Tribune has supplied the Michiana region with perspectives on a range of people, places, and events. Includes reporting on such topics as the rise and decline of manufacturing, the Studebaker Corporation, the region’s association with the Ku Klux Klan, expansion of electric rail transportation, the industrial economy, job loss; urban renewal, and technology investment.
Traces the history of Ukraine during the events leading up to WWII. Includes newspapers from three cities: Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Lviv. Includes newspapers in both Ukrainian and Russian.
Titles in the Soviet-Era Ukrainian Newspapers collection include:
Borot'ba (Боротьба)
Dilo (Діло)
Kievskaia mysl' (Киевская мысль)
Proletars’ka pravda (Пролетарська правда)
Visti VUTsVK (Вісті ВУЦВК)
Includes access to: Part I: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Domestic ; Part II: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Foreign, Scotland, Borders, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council ; Part III: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Domestic ; Part IV: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Foreign, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council ; Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782, Part 1: State Papers Domestic, Military, Naval and Registers of the Privy Council ; The Stuart and the Cumberland Papers from the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle.
Also includes empresses and consorts, relatives of the emperors, and imperial princesses (with the exception of the four families of the imperial princes of Fushiminomiya, Katsuranomiya, Arisugawanomiya, and Kanninnomiya), prepared in the pre-war period through extensive research conducted by the Department of the Imperial Household on all extant documents and records available at the time.
Access to materials related to the history of retail, with access to company archives, trade journals and union records. Chronicles stores and shopping habits in industrialized society during a period of transformation of consumer needs, social expectations, and technological advancements.
Digital collection of rare magazines by and for servicemen and women during the First World War. The magazines written and illustrated by service personnel from a huge variety of units: the infantry, artillery, air force, naval, supply and transport units, military hospitals and training depots of all combatant nations including America, Britain, Germany, Canada, France, Australia and New Zealand. Although the majority of journals that have survived originate from units based on the Western Front in France and Belgium, there are also magazines from units serving on the Eastern Front, in Gallipoli, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, Britain and America.
Access to content on U.S. criminal justice policies. Covers public laws, legislative reports, executive data, press
releases, and historical news articles. Also includes primary source content related to U.S. criminal justice policy, incorporating federal government statistics and data, topic pages, timelines, and newspaper articles.
Access to collections from archives across the UK and Ireland for the study of the lives and experiences of lesser-known women in their own words. Spanning a date range of 1600-1968, the resource explores the differing conditions in which women have lived in the UK and Ireland during the last four centuries, from experiences of wartime, witch trials, suffrage and feminist movements, to the everyday lives lived between and around these historic flashpoints.
The Ukrainian-language Za Vil’nu Ukrainu (За Вільну Україну, For a Free Ukraine) was founded in July 1990 in L’viv as an outlet of the Regional Council of Workers' Deputies with the stated purpose of uniting national-patriotic forces and Ukrainian ideals.